AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, MY PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE, VLADIMIR NABOKOV, CHANGED THE WAY I READ AND THE WAY I WRITE. WORDS COULD PAINT PICTURES, I LEARNED FROM HIM. CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD, AND THE RIGHT WORD ORDER, HE ILLUSTRATED, COULD MAKE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE IN CONVEYING AN IMAGE OR AN IDEA. — RUTH BADER GINSBURG Continue reading Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotation

TIME SOMETIMES FLIES LIKE A BIRD, SOMETIMES CRAWLS LIKE A SNAIL; BUT MAN IS HAPPIEST WHEN HE DOES NOT EVEN NOTICE WHETHER IT PASSES SWIFTLY OR SLOWLY. — IVAN TURGENEV Continue reading Ivan Turgenev Quotation